In Paris, Alexander Zverev recovers Daniil Medvedev and moves into semifinal with Jannik Sinner
World No. 3 Alexander Zverev of Germany beat Russian Daniil Medvedev in the last quarterfinal of the Paris Masters 1000 on the indoor concrete of the Defense Arena with a score of 2-6 6-.3 7-6. He will face Jannik Sinner in the semifinals tomorrow.
Zverev saves two consecutive break points in the first game of the match, then from 2-1 in favor he loses five games in a row suffering two breaks, on 5-2 he has two balls to take one back but Medvedev manages to close the partial at the second set point.
The games in a row for the Russian become six with the break in his favor at the beginning of the second set, but he immediately gives it back. Zverev finally enters the match and at 4-3 he is the one to place the stretch that takes the match to the third set.
On 1-1 Sascha breaks serve from the former world number 1 but Daniil immediately makes the counterbreak and on 2-2 he cancels two very dangerous break points. At 5-4 in his favor Medvedev has two break points that are also match points but he misses them.
Then it goes to the tie-break in which Zverev goes ahead 3-1, 4-2 and 5-3 but gets caught up at 5-5. But the last two points are his and after two and a half hours of play he can rejoice by throwing himself to the ground and think about tomorrow’s challenge with Sinner, a rematch of last Sunday’s Vienna final won by the South Tyrolean.
